Morrie Schwartz
Morrie Schwartz
Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartzwas a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie, which was written by Mitch Albom, a sportswriter who was a former student of his, and published in 1997. The book was followed by a film version based on the book that was made for television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 December 1916
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another
The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.
We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.
All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.
Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.